American traders supplied French colonies with food, clothing and weapons while Britain was trying to force those colonies to submit through blockade. Food helped sustain resistance to that pressure. The comparison with British arms supplied to Indigenous peoples depends on who was already at war. In this argument, Indigenous peoples were not yet fighting the United States, while American ambitions focused on their territory.
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Food shipments sustained resistance to blockade
American supplies to blockaded French colonies and British arms supplied to Indigenous peoples raised different questions about aid to an enemy.